Nicholas de Monchaux

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Nicholas de Monchaux (born July 30, 1973) is a designer and author, and currently Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. [1] He was formerly Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley [2] and Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. [3]

de Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, [4] a cultural, physical, and intellectual history of the Apollo A7L spacesuit; the book was winner of the Eugene Emme Astronautical Literature Award [5] and shortlisted for the Author's Club Art Book (Sir Banister Fletcher) Prize. [6] In 2016, he published Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities, [7] which combines several historical essays on urbanism, computing, and complexity with 3,659 designs for micro-scaled ecological interventions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Venice. This work earned praise from The New York Times for its "intelligent enquiry and actionable theorizing," [8] and was exhibited at the Biennial of the Americas, [9] the Venice Architecture Biennale, [10] The Lisbon Architecture Triennial, [11] and SFMOMA. [12]

In 2012, de Monchaux was named as one of the "Public Interest Design 100." [13] He is a former fellow of the American Academy in Rome. [14]

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  2. ↑ "Nicholas-de Monchaux" . Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  3. ↑ "Berkeley Center for New Media". bcnm.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  4. ↑ De Monchaux, Nicholas (2011). Spacesuit : fashioning Apollo. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN   9780262015202. OCLC   642351481.
  5. ↑ "Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Awards | American Astronautical Society". astronautical.org. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  6. ↑ "The Art Book Prize launches at the Whitechapel Gallery | Flint PR Agency UK". 2012-10-11. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2017-08-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ De Monchaux, Nicholas (2016-10-11). Local code : 3,659 proposals about data, design & the nature of cities (First ed.). New York. ISBN   9781616893804. OCLC   925410808.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Arieff, Allison (2010-02-10). "Space: It's Still a Frontier". Opinionator. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  9. ↑ Villarreal, Ignacio. "Denver Biennial of the Americas Announces Inaugural Exhibition". artdaily.com. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  10. ↑ "Venice Biennale 2012: U.S. Pavilion Announces Designers and Participants". ArchDaily. 2012-06-28. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
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  13. ↑ "Infographic: 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design". GOOD Magazine. 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
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